V. M. Lenzon is a musicologist and pianist, the author of many books and articles on a wide variety of topics, and for a long time has led the Moscow Ensemble of Jewish Music “Mitsva”. Due to the nature of his activity - on tour, in different cities and countries - he had to deal with witty people of genuine Jewish folklore. This folklore is part of a passing culture, and the author considered it necessary for himself to record at least part of folk art, which in essence is a Jewish joke , in the form of a collection of the most witty, in his opinion, aphoristic miniatures.